Word: columbia
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...teaches now at Barnard College, Columbia University, the Yale School of Drama...
Others say the neighborhood's low-income residents won't be uprooted. "A lot of people living in Harlem are protected from very drastic increases in housing prices," says Lance Freeman, a Columbia University professor whose studies have shown that the level of displacement prompted by gentrification is often exaggerated. Still, Freeman says, "if the rezoning has the effect that the city planners intend, no doubt it will significantly alter the neighborhood...
...Robert Thurman, an expert in Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University who knows the Dalai Lama well, has had repeated contact with the Karmapa and will soon publish a book titled Why the Dalai Lama Matters, worries that "if [the Karmapa] is pressured by devotees to travel and teach too much at too young an age at the expense of his studies," it could prevent him from "manifesting his full strength." But if he is allowed to mature, says Thurman, "50 years from now my son may have to write a book saying Why the Karmapa Matters...
...Gates. Allon said he intends to have a dinner in the fall honoring next year’s Harvard 100. Allon also said he plans to publish similar magazines and rankings for each Ivy League school. While no timeline has been set yet, Allon, an alumnus of Cornell and Columbia, said the next project would most likely involve either Yale or Princeton. “We’re currently looking for summer interns and correspondents from each graduating class to give current Harvard students and recent Harvard grads a great forum for interaction,” Allon said...
...industry, many Americans believed. The Japanese were "manipulating" their currency, the yen, to make their exports extra cheap in the U.S. market, in the same way China is accused of currently doing with the yuan. Americans freaked when Japanese companies bought supposedly priceless U.S. assets like Rockefeller Center and Columbia Pictures; today, Americans freak out when Chinese firms even attempt to purchase anything on U.S. soil. American manufacturers cried out for protection against the evil Japanese onslaught orchestrated by the sinister Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Otherwise, the U.S. economy would be doomed...